There are a few more, plus several untitled. I'm having a hard time with the cassette deck heads on the unknowns. I successfully made a couple of good practice UEFs but now the tapes are getting chewed before the headers pass through. Hence me offering them out to the more knowledgeable. I do feel there will be nothing new here though.

Tape chewing is normally a mechanical fault with the take-up spool drive running slower than the capsan (the rubber roller near the tape read/write head). Sometimes due to a slipping belt. Also ensure that the tape path and head is clean. And that the capsan rubber roller is slightly grippy and not shiny and smooth.

Colin’s comments remind me that poor quality, or poorly stored tapes sometimes are the cause. For some reason, the friction between the spool(s) and the case increases, hindering the free movement of the spool(s).

A hexagon shaped pencil is useful for seeing who difficult a spool is to rotate.

I keep meaning to make a suitable bit to fit in a battery powered drill to test a tape to destruction, but somehow have never gotten around to doing this (yet)!

Mark

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mr ee
It would be nice to think that an Electron version of this exists, but perhaps it's just the BBC Micro version. I think it runs, but incredibly slowly.

Sorry

No need to apologise. Maybe it is an Electron version, or someone modified the BBC version to run! I didn't want to put you off investigating it, but at the same time didn't want you to waste your time if it turns out just to be a bootleg BBC version.

No need to apologise. Maybe it is an Electron version, or someone modified the BBC version to run! I didn't want to put you off investigating it, but at the same time didn't want you to waste your time if it turns out just to be a bootleg BBC version.

It didn't load in fully, but I can see that the file lengths are the same as the STH BBC tape version.

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Okay, so next question: does anyone want any/all of these cassettes? Free for postage, obviously. Otherwise they'll only get stored in a cardboard box in the loft as I realistically won't have the time to do anything with them in the foreseeable.

Okay, so next question: does anyone want any/all of these cassettes? Free for postage, obviously. Otherwise they'll only get stored in a cardboard box in the loft as I realistically won't have the time to do anything with them in the foreseeable.

I could add these to my collection . . . I plan to catalogue what I have and make them available to anyone who would need/like them. I'd pay the postage too - seems right! I still have a little space (will have more when Xavier collects his goodies), so no issues there.